terminal emulation

terminal emulation

[axel.junker]

I am using GNU Emacs as the environment for all my daily computing tasks on my GNU Linux system. So far I am really content with what Emacs already provides - Gnus, org-mode, Dired, shell-mode, etc. There is just one thing that is bugging me. Ocasionally I have to fall back to an external terminal emulator (e.g. gnome-terminal) to run ncursed based applications like aptitude. Is there any way to run such applications from within emacs? shell-mode obviously does not work, and both M-x term and M-x terminal-emulator are broken. (Try aptitude in either one of them).
In particular, I would like to have a terminal emulator that is a real emulator without any nitty gritty. That is, any key press is directly forwarded to the underlying terminal, except for one escape character (e.g. C-c).
Does that make sense? Is there any interest in patching term to support that?

-- Axel

Re: terminal emulation

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Renaud_Casenave-P=E9r=E9?=]

You can try ansi-term [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AnsiTerm] or multi-term
[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultiTerm] which should do what you want. In
particular, aptitude seems to work flawlessly (I just tried 2 minutes ago).

If your shell complains about terminfo, you might need to install the package
ncurses-term (at least on Debian).

-- 
Renaud Casenave-Péré

Re: terminal emulation

[René Kyllingstad]

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nterm supports Aptitude:

http://kanis.fr/nterm.html


-- René
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 20:43, <axel.junker@safe-mail.net> wrote:

> I am using GNU Emacs as the environment for all my daily computing tasks on
> my GNU Linux system. So far I am really content with what Emacs already
> provides - Gnus, org-mode, Dired, shell-mode, etc. There is just one thing
> that is bugging me. Ocasionally I have to fall back to an external terminal
> emulator (e.g. gnome-terminal) to run ncursed based applications like
> aptitude. Is there any way to run such applications from within emacs?
> shell-mode obviously does not work, and both M-x term and M-x
> terminal-emulator are broken. (Try aptitude in either one of them).
> In particular, I would like to have a terminal emulator that is a real
> emulator without any nitty gritty. That is, any key press is directly
> forwarded to the underlying terminal, except for one escape character (e.g.
> C-c).
> Does that make sense? Is there any interest in patching term to support
> that?
>
> -- Axel
>
>

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